Hacker News: PieTime

New comment by PieTime in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

PieTime — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:05:38 +0000

Trust with trillions of dollars in investments, basically destroyed by Bobby Drop Tables…

https://xkcd.com/327/

New comment by PieTime in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

PieTime — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:24:51 +0000

If they can look at their leaderships statements as positive or neutral then they are part of the problem.

New comment by PieTime in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

PieTime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:59:36 +0000

This isn’t hypothetical, this system just exists in other countries. Digital systems can confirm flight instruction from ATC with zero radio communication.

New comment by PieTime in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

PieTime — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:27:07 +0000

My rich friend drove home drunk from a police ball even though his parents gave him an unlimited taxi card, the police stopped him and recognized his family, and then told him to get home safely.

My other friend forgot his drivers license at home while being non-white and was arrested/charged and forced to explain why he didn’t bring his license to a judge.

New comment by PieTime in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

PieTime — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:04:39 +0000

The end game is when the US backed dictatorships collapse, this is the end of American power, not the beginning.

New comment by PieTime in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

PieTime — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:53:32 +0000

Save it in the evening, it was always dark in the morning.

Historically we were saving daylight for the morning

New comment by PieTime in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

PieTime — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:16:48 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. For income taxes many states and the federal government offset each others debts.

In Canada provinces can choose to harmonize taxes or collect independently.

New comment by PieTime in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

PieTime — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:28:04 +0000

Maybe stop US should stop funding ISIS, Al Queda in Syria, mujahideen in Afghanistan…

New comment by PieTime in "I stopped following the news"

PieTime — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:31:49 +0000

I think it’s not news that’s the problem. It’s the sources of news are often biased and spend very little time explaining events in context. I much prefer an hour long news program or multi-page article that details events and perspectives going years into the past. We have a surprising large amount of influence on events around the world. Everything from the companies you support to your politics can vastly change world events.

I really dislike the notion that events outside of your country are somehow not important.

New comment by PieTime in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

PieTime — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:25:47 +0000

I presume these are surveillance drones and are programmed to loop back to origin

New comment by PieTime in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

PieTime — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:16:10 +0000

I agree with #DefundThePolice, buts that’s not his current position and he’s kept the police chief from the prior administration.

New comment by PieTime in "'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles"

PieTime — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:07:08 +0000

Until we have many redundant layers of backup, the risk of drugging copilot and going down is a non zero risk that triggered many of these policies.

New comment by PieTime in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

PieTime — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:54:14 +0000

This is precisely what allows for the NHS to be cannibalized. They underfunded one of the best systems of healthcare and replaced it with private care for ultra wealthy while reducing quality of care for vast majority of people.

New comment by PieTime in "White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations"

PieTime — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:25:52 +0000

And some US allies have seen no change, I’m hoping that’s not a metric for which countries to invade.

New comment by PieTime in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

PieTime — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:43:43 +0000

Wing-nut? Is that now the census for the majority of the world outside of the US and UK? If we’re looking at legal precedent, then not taking action could see massive legal challenges that could destroy Microsoft for complicity in genocide.

New comment by PieTime in "$10k RTX Pro reportedly snaps under its own weight during transit"

PieTime — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:47:18 +0000

Mine came with an magnetic anti-sag bar and it was badly needed

New comment by PieTime in "GenAI Image Editing Showdown"

PieTime — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:43:01 +0000

I think I’d probably say that the prompts are telling me more about the author than I think is necessary for these tests… I hope they were at least sampled from responses.

New comment by PieTime in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

PieTime — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:55:48 +0000

Management consult grift is reaching its inevitable end. They’ll cut out the management and insert AI consultants.

New comment by PieTime in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

PieTime — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:30:11 +0000

Some countries with state gas or utility monopoly will ensure legislation blocks solar power. Example Thailand has huge solar potential but cheap gas, so they block solar panel installations

Yes, there is inequality as can be seen in Pakistan. But once restrictions are dropped the solar panels take off.

New comment by PieTime in "Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful"

PieTime — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:01:17 +0000

We’re living in a time of income inequality and this is the natural result.